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For his second album, Mando Saenz knew he had a different musical direction to take as compared to his acoustic-tinged, DIY debut. `Watertown had a definite underlying theme, kind of revealing a lot of hidden truths,` he says. `I knew Bucket would be a rock record, and I wasnt afraid of using pop sensibilities in my approach, or falling into a straightforward love song.` On Bucket, Mando and producer R.S. Field partnered with some of roots rocks most potent musicians --Kenny Vaughan, Richard Bennett, Tony Crow and Chris Carmichael -- to punctuate Mandos haunting tenor and unexpected phrases with distorted guitars and chiming acoustics. (Thirty Tigers)
